The Parthian Stations by Isidore of Charax, an account of the overland trade route between the Levant and India in the first century B.C., the Greek text, with a translation and commentary by Wilfred H. Schoff (Philadelphia, 1914), in 53 pdf pages. Attached to the document is a multilingual HTML version of the translation proper. Internet Archive has many copies of this valuable document.  The present edition is bookmarked and searchable. Book digitized by Google and compiled by Robert Bedrosian. Wikipedia has an entry on the author (Isidore of Charax), "a Greco-Roman geographer of the 1st century BC and 1st century AD, a citizen of the Parthian Empire, about whom nothing is known but his name and that he wrote at least one work." For a discussion of the work's importance, see Fergus Millar's article, Caravan Cities: The Roman Near East and Long-Distance Trade by Land.

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